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Julian Temple’s portrait of the Pogues singer is a rambling, messy, wild, sad and inspirational doc — in other words, a fine tribute to its subject
The third film in his pentalogy stars John Boyega as a representation of frustrated, upstanding, rational black masculinity
The second chapter of the five-film Small Axe, in which Steve McQueen attempts to excavate glimpses of black British life from the Sixties through the Eighties, is rooted in reggae
An exhaustive new documentary on Frank Zappa offers up a portrait of an artist as a walking contradiction
A what-if look at David Bowie’s brief tour of America at a pivotal, pre-Ziggy point in his career is a textbook case of how not to make a rock movie
George C. Wolfe’s screen adaption of the seminal August Wilson play also stars a stunning Chadwick Boseman, in his final film role, as ambitious horn player Levee
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The director’s ‘Small Axe’ series focuses on the black British experience — and the first of five is now streaming on Amazon Prime
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